Top 85 J-Dramas Of All Time: #41-50
41. バンビ～ノ! (Bambino!)
Japanese Level: ☆☆
After working at his local neighborhood restaurant in Fukuoka, Ban decides to challenge himself by trying to become a chef at a top Italian restaurant in Tokyo.
42. フリーター、家を買う (Part-Time Worker, Buy A House)
Japanese Level: ☆☆
Recent college grad Seiji quits his first job after only three months. He now must face the tough economic conditions in Japan of finding a new job, and learn the value of working hard. His new goal: buy a house.
43. 弁護士のくず (Worthless Lawyer)
Japanese Level: ☆☆☆☆☆
New aspiring lawyer Takeda, with strong ideals and sense of justice joins veteran lawyer Kuzu, the complete opposite of him, who will do anything to win a case. Watch as the two break all the legal rules of the lawyer world.
44. アテンションプリーズ (Attention Please)
Japanese Level: ☆
Ex-lead singer of a rock group, to get the attention of her love interest, decides to become a cabin attendant. To attain the coveted uniform and become a top class woman, she will have to face the struggle of working at Japanese Airlines.
45. 花より男子 Season 1 + 2 (Boys Over Flowers)
Japanese Level: ☆☆
Coming from a family without any money, Tsukushi manages to get into the super-elite high school for the rich and successful. She encounters the F4, 4 extremely popular and wealthy guys, who run the school, and a war + love interest develops between them. This a classic, and is a big part of Japanese pop-culture.
46. 働きマン (Working Man)
Japanese Level: ☆☆☆
Incredibly dedicated to her job, and with the ability to switch into “working man mode,” Hiroko must learn to balance a super successful, fast-paced career, and her love life.
47. ホーリーランド (Holy Land)
Japanese Level: ☆☆
Yu, fed up with bullying and abuse, decides to take up boxing, by practicing 5000 punches a day, for 2 years straight, gaining incredible skill. In an effort to defend himself from the violent street world, he slowly ends up being called “The Yankee Hunter”, and becomes the target of fighters all over the area. As each opponent is stronger than the next, will he be able to adapt his fighting style, and find his “holy land?”
Most likely you’ve never heard of this drama. This is an incredibly fun, fighting drama, and one of my favorites.
48. あしたの、喜多善男〜世界一不運な男の、奇跡の11日間〜 (Kita Yoshio’s Tomorrow, The World’s Unluckiest Man and His Miracle 11 Days)
Japanese Level: ☆☆☆
Self-proclaimed as unlucky, Kita plans his suicide date in 11 days. He sells off everything he owns, and plans his last 11 days, but ends up meeting the most unexpected of characters which change his and their lives for good. What will happen on the 11th day?
49. ハンマーセッション (Hammer Session)
Japanese Level: ☆
Recently escaped con artist with a heart of gold, finds himself in the expected role of a brand new teacher, and employs his “hammer method” for teaching his students. Will he go to far with the intensity of his ways, or is it what this troubling school needs?
50. ブラッディ・マンデイ Season 1 + 2 (Bloody Monday)
Japanese Level: ☆☆☆
After a biological terrorist attack on a small church in Russia, the Japanese government has intelligence that the same will take place affecting all of Tokyo. Young expert computer hacker Takagi gets recruited by the police special force to prevent this impending catastrophe.
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Holy Land seems like a good one I can’t get a enough of fighting anime/dramas. Thanks
Man, it says a lot for the sorry state of my Japanese when dramas you list as “One Star” difficulty I can barely follow. :-(
Don’t worry, you’ll get there.
I just finished watching hammer session. Great drama, made me cry at the end. Also, really easy to understand~
Thanks for these guides adshap!
I completely agree with you; it is a great drama. It was the second one that I watched and I really got into it, and I think that helped me come to appreciate JDramas now. Not only that, but the Japanese subs for it were easy to find which was nice as well.
adshap:
I’ve recently been going through your other suggestions and have really been enjoying them so far. I haven’t thanked you for them yet, so thanks!
If you have any favorites that you like from the guides, definitely leave comments about them! I think people are more likely to get excited to watch them if other people are also enjoying them as well.
It’s a really fun drama. I was almost considering discontinuing the guides because I thought no one was actually using them, but I guess I will continue them!
I just finished Holyland.
I absolutely loved it. Burned through it in two sittings (which would have been one sitting if I didn’t have to go to work). Really, really great stuff. A shonen fighting anime in drama form!
Are there any other fighting dramas you can recommend like this?
Holy land was pretty unique.
The only other fighting dramas that come to mind are:
Crows Zero (movie)
マジですか学園 (though this was just silly)
Then again these are more high school fighting, and not street fighting like in Holy Land.